perspective of Jim Burden‚ and focuses on his relationship with his close childhood friend Ántonia. Both of the characters move to Nebraska at the same time‚ and influence each other’s lives greatly. Jim Burden grows up to have a deep connection and longing for his past and repeatedly renews the relationships between close friends and hometown. My Ántonia shows the stages of life for a character around the 1900s‚ starting at 10 years old to around the age of 20. The story is narrated by Jim Burden that
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“Jim Cramer’s 25 Rules for Investing” “Jim Cramer’s Twenty-five Rules for Investing” teaches and suggests investors the effective ways and attitudes for investing. Some of the rules are practical experiences while some are psychological strategies that investors should have in mind. The following ten rules are the ones that I found best interested me: Rule 2: It’s OK to Pay the Taxes. Investors are feared for the taxes they have to pay on short-term gains from their investments. Thus‚ they
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The New Jim Crow “Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans” states Michelle Alexander‚ (the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) )‚ in an interview with a nonprofit‚ independent publisher of educational materials known as Rethinking Schools. A perfect example of Michelle Alexander’s statement is Sonya Jennings who is an African American mother
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I listened to the audiobook version of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and as I listened I walked through the streets of Boston. One night as I listened to Michelle Alexander talk about how African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by the police‚ I came across two Emerson Police Officers forcing a black man to the ground. He knelt down with his hands in the air as they patted his body down. Maybe he had done something do deserve this treatment
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Jim Crow Rule Jim Crow was a dance made up by a white American. The dance and song itself were written by a comedian Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ also known as Daddy Rice‚ in 1828‚ which depicted African-American culture. On the other hand‚ the performances were deriding slavery whilst poor African-Americans had to deal with the indignity. That was what the jumped Jim Crow dance and song was all about. The Jim Crow term can be defined as a system of racial oppression. Not long after the Civil War had
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Jim Jarmusch is one of the prominent post-modernist directors whose works produced a profound impression on the audience and often evoked quite controversial emotions. His films are very original and convey the authentic message of the author‚ but the director often chooses such means of conveying his ideas that his works are perceived in different way by different people. In fact‚ some people enjoy his films and believe they are genius‚ while‚ on the other hand‚ there are people who do not really
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racial profiling. She worked at private law firms specializing in plaintiff-side class-action lawsuits regarding racial and gender discrimination. She then later became a writer. In The New Jim Crow she exployed the prejustice that black people face in America. She noted that while slavery
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Southern States passed various laws of racial segregation‚ focused against the black sectors. By the turn of the century those laws were called the Jim Crow laws‚ both north and south. Between the 1880s and the 1960s the laws expanded. Jim Crow‚ within the context of this unit‚ refers to the official discrimination against or segregation of African Americans. Jim Crow legislation was officially instituted by the southern states when racial attitudes hardened in the 1890’s‚ shortly
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GOOD TO GREAT Why Some Companies Make the Leap…. And Others Don’t Author : Jim Collins About the Author : Jim Collins‚ a student and teacher of enduring great companies. He serves as a teacher to leaders through the corporate and social sectors. He is an ex-faculty of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and proud recipient of the Distinguished Teaching award in 1992. Known for his deep research’s‚ Jim has authored or co-authored four books‚ including the classic a. BUILT TO
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“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness‚ it turns out‚ is largely a matter of conscious choice‚ and discipline.” by Jim Collins. Good To Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins covers how leaders can meet goals efficiently with their desired group or team. This monograph dives into the deeper details and qualities of how businesses went from average to amazing with long lasting capabilities. Any business or group can deliver superior performance‚ achieve lasting endurance‚ and
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